Hakkinen will join the field for the Race of Champions on 5-6 February, which is taking place in the Swedish resort of Pite Havsbad with an off-course route in the ice and snow. Current Mercedes F1 driver Bottas announced in September he would be making his Race of Champions debut next year, and he will now be partnered by Hakkinen. Bottas and Hakkinen will represent Team Finland in the Nations Cup, with both drivers also due to take part in the individual Champion of Champions event. “I’m very excited to be back racing again and to finally be able to participate in the Race Of Champions,” said Hakkinen, who won the F1 drivers’ title in 1998 and 1999 with McLaren. “It will be very different from racing in Formula 1, but I love competition and it’s so spectacular driving on snow and ice. “I’ll try to get some practice at my place in the north of Finland before the event. “It’s an honour to represent Team Finland with Valtteri Bottas. We will do our best to win the …
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Another Day, Another Criminal Investigation Into the Trump Organization
Click here to read the full article. More legal trouble for Donald Trump . The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the Westchester County district attorney’s office has subpoenaed tax records from both Trump National Golf Club Westchester and Ossining, the town that sets its property taxes. The Times notes that District Attorney Mimi Rocah is likely concerned with whether the Trump Organization deliberately undervalued the property in order to pay less in taxes. More from Rolling Stone Meghan McCain: People Think I'm 'Spoiled, Entitled Queen of Nepotism' Stephen Miller Wanted to Send a Quarter of a Million Troops to the Border. Trump Had an Even Dumber Idea Trump Can't Help Himself, Lashes Out at Colin Powell The Trump Organization has made a yearly habit of appealing its tax bill for the Westchester golf club by offering a much-lower assessment of the property’s value than what Ossining determined it is worth. One year, the Times notes, …
McConnell Is About to Block a Voting-Rights Bill. It’s All Part of Democrats’ Plan
Click here to read the full article. WASHINGTON — It’s not often the leader of the United States Senate holds a vote knowing it will fail. It’s even less often the Senate leader calls a doomed vote for one of the most important bills in his party’s legislative agenda. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is about to do just that. The Senate will vote Wednesday on the Freedom to Vote Act , a once-in-a-generation bill to safeguard the right to vote, disclose dark money, and stop the partisan operatives who tried to steal the last election from stealing the next one. The vote is almost certainly going to fail. Democrats hold 50 seats, they need 60 votes to beat a Republican filibuster, and there’s no indication that even one GOP senator, let alone 10, plans to break ranks and support the bill. More from Rolling Stone Kyrsten Sinema Blasts Dems But Won't State Her Objections to Social Safety Net Bill Inside the Left's Revenge Plot Against Kyrsten Sinema Joe …
Meet the Jewish Former Southlake Student Who Spoke Out Against Teaching ‘Two Sides’ of the Holocaust
Click here to read the full article. At a school board meeting in Southlake, Texas on Monday night, former student Jake Berman took the mic and uttered these powerful, and unfortunately necessary, words: “The facts are that there are not two sides of the Holocaust. The Nazis systematically killed millions of people.” He went on to describe his experience, which he said nearly drove him to suicide. “I received everything from jokes about my nose to gas chambers, all while studying for my bar mitzvah from a Holocaust survivor as my primary tutor,” Berman, 31, told the Carroll Independent School District Board. “I still struggle with the depression that started at Dawson Middle School in 2003 to this very day.” Berman was there to share his experiences in light of Texas Senate Bill 3 (SB3), a law that passed this summer to regulate how schools in the state teach social studies — specifically America’s racist history. Last week, his former district found itself in the eye …
Alonso would back a third American F1 race
F1’s American owner Liberty Media has made a big push to expand the sport's presence in North America since coming on board in 2017. Following the success of the Netflix documentary series Drive to Survive , the new owners completed a deal to bring F1 to Miami from May 2022, which has secured a spot on a 23-race calendar that also includes Austin’s US GP in October. But Liberty is investigating further American opportunities, with Las Vegas and Indianapolis mentioned as the two most likely options for a third grand prix in the States. A Vegas event would likely involve a street race incorporating parts of the famous downtown Strip, while Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Roger Penske is known to have had exploratory talks with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali about a long-term return to the Speedway's road course, which last hosted F1 in 2007. Alonso, who was in Miami on Tuesday to open a Kimoa/Simply EV store in F1’s latest host city along with its Mayor Francis Suarez, …
Rock star Randy Bachman’s favorite guitar was stolen. One of his fans tracked it down in Japan.
3 As a teenager, Randy Bachman saved every dollar he made. He spent countless hours mowing lawns, babysitting and washing cars so he could one day afford the guitar of his dreams. Bachman, a Canadian musician and founding member of the band Guess Who, vividly recalls spending his Saturdays in the early 1960s standing outside a music store in his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He would gaze longingly, sometimes for more than an hour, at the pumpkin-orange guitar that sat in the store window display. It was a 1957 Gretsch 6120 - the same rare model famously played by three of Bachman's greatest idols, Chet Atkins, Duane Eddy and Eddie Cochran. "It was years and years of dreaming about buying that guitar," said Bachman, now 78. Finally, by age 19, he had saved up enough. At the time, the guitar cost him $400. Today, it's worth about $15,000, Bachman estimated. From the moment he held it, "this guitar meant everything to me," he said. "It was …
‘Dune’ Wages an All-Out Attack on the Senses – and Wins
Click here to read the full article. It’s hard to be a messiah. Even before he recognizes that this is what he is, the young Paul Atreides of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune , played by Timothée Chalamet , lets the grief of expectation seep into his body, down to the drowsed slump of his shoulders and the toneless, contemplative wariness of his voice. The actor’s charm is kept in check; his latent vulnerabilities are in overdrive. Paul is the heir to House Atreides, whose fief is the oceanic planet of Caladan, a stony, rainy, tumultuous world, limited in its purview and power. An unusual home for a family said to descend from the ancient Greeks — but it sure helps to explain why everyone seems a little down in the dumps. In another kind of movie, this quality would maybe seem less worthy of remark. A moody teen. So what? But Dune , as Villeneuve has ambitiously sought to tell it, is above all a story of empire, to which Chalamet’s performance lends an interesting …
How the controversy over Dave Chappelle’s special put Netflix on blast
As Netflix endures another week of the maelstrom created by Dave Chappelle's controversial comedy special that shows no signs of slowing down, the streamer finds itself on the edge of a metamorphic moment. Since its transformation from DVD mailer to entertainment industry heavyweight nearly a decade ago, the company has managed to weather the tide of controversy that comes with being a big fish in the rising ocean of online streaming. But this? This feels different. Since the special debuted Oct. 5, three employees were suspended, fiercely guarded corporate data was leaked, another employee was fired, countless others are planning to walk out in protest, and demands have been made. And that isn't all. Public criticism is mounting, and the company's own stars aren't holding their tongues (or Twitter fingers). But the question of whether the streamer will leap or fall back is still up in the air. With a marathon list of original programming that in 2019 was equivalent to …
Ford Bronco Ride-On Toy By Kid Trax Will Cause Playground Envy
We freely admit this could be a touchy subject for some people, notably among those who ordered a new Ford Bronco and are impatiently waiting for its arrival. It's quite possible your kids could get the off-roader before you do, albeit in a slightly detuned, smaller format. Of course, slightly detuned is an understatement here. In actuality, it's a battery-powered mini-Bronco for kids, made by Kid Trax with licensing from Ford to give it some official ambiance. As such, it looks just as cool as the real thing and it even shares some of the real Bronco's features. The doors are removable, and the "roof" comes off as well. In this instance, the roof really means side covers since the occupants sit well above the roofline, but the end result is a roofless two-door look that mimics the real Bronco in grand fashion. Gallery: Kid Trax Ford Bronco 12 Photos The Kid …